Gifo's Garage V2.0 22x11

iwantspeed · Mar 14, 2016

Hey guys,
Thanks for sharing all of your ideas and I appreciate your willingness to document and show others how to do things properly.

Here is are some pictures to document upgrades to the garage, tools, and the car.

Its a 11 foot wide 22 foot deep garage with a short inlet to the door.
its a lot better than my previous garage.

Insulated
drywall
sprinkler system
attached to the condo
110v power
floor is nice and flat with no cracks in the cement.

after seeing all the garages on this forum it makes me not take anything for granted.

I'm renting a condo and cant get to crazy with this garage.

I cutoff of the prebuilt shelf off the wall and lowered it to work bench height.
i also added a pegboard wall.
I borrowed my wife's car and it barely fit.

I have gotten some filing cabinets for free.
great for storing car parts, cleaning supplies, and paint cans.
but it doesnt match.

I took the drawers out, removed the handles, and the lock tumbler.

I'm going for a craftsman look. gloss red exterior black drawers silver handles

first file cabinet done.

started working on the other ones.

couldnt get the drawer out.
so i just masked everything to paint it black.

all done.
im happy with the results so I will do the engine stand next.

Xporter · Mar 14, 2016

Those came out nice, what brand paint?

dubber · Mar 14, 2016

Fun DIY project! nice results.

Purist · Mar 14, 2016

Ah, a fellow BMW enthusiast! Love the E30!

Great job on those cabinets. Ditto Xporter's question, what type/brand paint did you use?

iwantspeed · Mar 14, 2016

Xporter said:
Those came out nice, what brand paint?

Thanks rustoleum

dubber said:
Fun DIY project! nice results.

Thanks dubber

sed335i said:
Ah, a fellow BMW enthusiast! Love the E30!

Great job on those cabinets. Ditto Xporter's question, what type/brand paint did you use?

Thanks

It's rustoleum regal red and satin black.

First I cleaned the cabinets with simple green and a microfiber.
Then I used 150 grit sand paper and rubbed down the cabinets and gave them a nice key.
You are trying to not sand the old paint but cut down on the gloss and give the new paint something to bite too.

This was followed up by some SEM solve wax,oil and grease remover.
Followed by a clean towel to get any excess.
Then immediately started spray painting with slightly warm paint cans.
Rustoleum satin black
Part number 7777

Rustoleum regal red
Part number 7765

SEM sem solve
Part number 38373

crooklyn · Mar 14, 2016

Great job! And thanks for sharing. Can't wait to copy

iwantspeed · Mar 15, 2016

crooklyn said:
Great job! And thanks for sharing. Can't wait to copy

Hey thanks

chrisisiced · Mar 15, 2016

Wow. I have to say those cabinets came out amazing. I may do the same thing to a 6ft green cabinet that I have to match my color scheme.

iwantspeed · Mar 15, 2016

chrisisiced said:
Wow. I have to say those cabinets came out amazing. I may do the same thing to a 6ft green cabinet that I have to match my color scheme.

Nice you can buy a huge tarp or drop cloth at homedepot.

One painting tip if you use the same paint I bought is if you miss a spot and it has dried for a few hours let it dry a full day before touching up any spots

It's best to give it a light even coat 5-10 minutes later give it a heavy coat and be done with it for 24 hours

iwantspeed · Mar 15, 2016

So after being happy with the results from the cabinets i wanted to paint my engine stand.

Problem how do I get the engine off the stand by myself.

Light bulb moment gears turning. Maybe I can get it down with my transmission jack.

I made some 4x4 blocks with 2 4x4 to set cars on so I can setup adjustable end links when I'm corner balancing them.

The idea is to place the trans jack on top of the 4x4's so I can slide out the stand once the jack supports the weight of the engine.

I added some ratchet straps.
And it worked.
Lowered the engine down and its sitting nice and flat on the stand with a jackstand as a back up in case it tips

Now i can dissasemble the engine stand and get it ready for paint.

iwantspeed · Mar 18, 2016

I got started on the engine stand.

Parts degreased and sanded a bit to key the surface.

First coat

Decided to let them dry on the bench so I could park my car in the garage.

iwantspeed · May 10, 2016

Well got some upgrades for the garage.
After reading many reviews and drooling over the tool box organization thread I pulled the trigger on a new toolbox
I rented a pick up truck from the local u haul.
And bought a 44inch harbor freight tool chest.
Part number 69387
They loaded it up with a fork lift.

Loaded up.

I strapped it in with one ratchet strap pinched between the tailgate.

I had a short drive home
I got home and tipped it on its back.

I took off the pallet and unboxed it and tipped it out of the truck with the help of two friends.
All set up

phule · May 10, 2016

Very nice! In for organized tool pics! I think im gonna pull the trigger on one of these soon.

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freebo86 · May 10, 2016

Gonna follow along and see how you utilize the most of your space since my garage isnt the biggest either and I constantly keep finding myself just shuffling things around.

iwantspeed · May 10, 2016

phule said:
Very nice! In for organized tool pics! I think im gonna pull the trigger on one of these soon.

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will do ill post some preliminary organization pictures

freebo86 said:
Gonna follow along and see how you utilize the most of your space since my garage isnt the biggest either and I constantly keep finding myself just shuffling things around.

i can post some panoramic pictures to give you a better idea.

fireeqpsrv · May 10, 2016

Looking good.

iwantspeed · May 11, 2016

Some preliminary organization pictures
Hammer drawer.

Wrench drawer

Pliers and hand tool drawer

Screwdriver,pry bar, punches,chisels drawer
There is a second magnetic strip in there now. I'd like to rivet them to the drawer to keep them from moving.

Drill bit and hex bit drawer

Still working on setting up top drawer how I want.

Oil wrench drawer

Allen wrench drawer

Drill motor and drill bits

Dial indicators and machinist tools

Electronics drawer

jkrout · May 11, 2016

Looks like you've got a really good start on your tool organization and garage in general. Keep it up!

iwantspeed · May 27, 2016

my friend moved into a new house and the previous owners left this nice table in the garage

he offered it to me and I went over, dissembled it and brought home in the wife's prius

got it home. its freaking heavy

mocked up for now

iwantspeed · May 31, 2016

I installed some magnetic strips into some of the drawers to help keep things in place.

Magnetic tray
Paper towel holder
Paint can holder

I went to bimmerfest at auto club speedway in Fontana California and got to ride with tony Jackson in his e46 m3 for part of a session. Very good driver and nicely setup car.

iwantspeed · Jun 16, 2016

Update
I got a nice piece of mdf cut to size on the panel saw at Home Depot
It's 41.5X17.5
It's going to be a spacer between the top of the box and the butcher block.

I took the top drawer thanks to the help of a YouTube video by user R.J. Workshop

Trying to get a game plan going.

Sears had a sale on this 4 inch black bench vice. So I picked one up.

The mounting holes had excess flashing so bad that the bolts wouldn't fit.

The vice couldn't only pivot half way before it got bound up.
More flashing in the way.

There are bits and pieces of flashing that had to be removed for it to operate smoothly.

Dremel and a carbide tool made quick work of the flashing.

I machined a nice base all squared up for the vice.

I machined some soft jaws also.

I bought hardware that ended up being to short so still have to wait on mounting the vice.

iwantspeed · Jun 21, 2016

It's 108 degrees out in Irvine yesterday but I got to work on mounting the vice.
Here is the new vice.
Soft jaws
Bolts
Nuts
Washers
Base plate

Mdf spacer attached to the bottom of the butcher block to act as a spacer between the tool box since it has a metal lip around the sides and back.

Measure 5 times and don't **** up this nice piece of wood.

Perfect.

The bolts are now going through the
vice
Aluminum spacer
Butcher block
Mdf
Top of the tool box
And nuts tighten from below.

First test holding my wife's bike
I got a wall mount bike rack at Home Depot to hold bikes in the vice.

iwantspeed · Jun 27, 2016

After reading a review for this bench vice on Amazon.
I reviewer posted that he added a large washer with 2 sides cutoff. Under the shoulder bolt to keep some slack out.

this mod requires the bolt to tightened almost all the way tight then back off and use Loctite when assembling.

After doing this you can really tell that washer was an upgrade

JustinS · Jun 27, 2016

Nice!

iwantspeed · Jul 7, 2016

A little late night prep before the road trip to Laguna Seca this Friday.

iwantspeed · Aug 22, 2016

we did an autocross last weekend here is the fastest time of the day

click for the youtube video

iwantspeed · Jan 10, 2017

so i got a side cabinet for christmas from my wife

here is the before shot

these holes had to be enlarged to get the side cabinet to fit nice and flush with the big tool box

i took the drawers out of the cabinet so i could load it on and off by myself

done

Salim · Jan 10, 2017

Awesome work! Love the bench top addition to the 44".

fireeqpsrv · Jan 10, 2017

I like how the box turned out with the top on it.

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